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Best’s Special Report: While U.S. Life/Annuity Product Growth Moderated in 2025, Registered Indexed-Linked Annuity Product Kept Fast Sales Pace

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Registered indexed-linked annuities (RILAs) continued to be one of the fastest growing product segments within the U.S. life insurance industry in 2025, according to a new AM Best report. The Best’s Special Report, “Annuity Premium Growth Moderated in 2025,” notes that interest in RILAs has fueled growth in variable annuities, while premium generated from deferred and fixed indexed annuities remained flat last year. While RILAs offer higher potential growth with...
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Bayer Partners with Luke Bryan to Donate 1 Million Meals Through Feeding America® to Expand Access to Food and Nutrition in Rural Communities

WHIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bayer and country superstar and five-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan today launched their 2026 campaign to expand access to food and nutrition in rural America, with Bayer donating 1 million meals* through Feeding America®. The campaign kicks off May 14–16 in California with a Walmart community food drive in Clovis, followed by additional food collection at Farm Tour stops in Clovis and Elk Grove. In partnership with Central California Food Bank and Sacr...
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Planet Selected for 7-Figure Deal with Czech Government for AI-Powered Agriculture Monitoring

BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs Germany, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced Planet's subsidiary Sinergise Solutions d.o.o. has signed a 2-year, 7-figure contract to provide satellite imagery and AI-powered analytics to the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) of the Czech Republic. This deal will support the country-wide agricultural payments and monitoring system. By integrating Planet’s high-frequency satellite data with AI analyti...
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impact.com Announces 2026 iPX in Austin, Bringing Together Global Leaders to Explore the Future of AI-driven Partnerships

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--impact.com, the global infrastructure for partnership-driven commerce, today announced the return of its flagship global event, Partnerships Experience (iPX), taking place June 9-11, 2026, in Austin, Texas. iPX 2026 will bring together more than 1,000 leaders across brands, creators, publishers, agencies, and technology partners to explore how AI, data, and partnerships are reshaping the future of marketing and commerce. Across three days of keynotes, workshops, and i...
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WilliamsMarston Welcomes Marcello Castellano as Finance as a Service Practice Leader

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marcello Castellano has joined WilliamsMarston as Partner and Finance as a Service (FaaS) Practice Leader, based in its Boston office. His appointment marks the formal launch of WilliamsMarston's new Finance as a Service practice, which will deliver end-to-end finance and accounting capabilities through a technology-enabled platform model. The new practice will provide clients with a full outsourcing model for operational and strategic finance and accounting capabilitie...
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MegPrime Launches Rent Payment Rewards Program That Offers Up To $800 Per Month Back To Renters

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For most Americans, rent is their single largest monthly expense. And historically, it has built nothing. No equity. No savings. No progress toward owning a home. MegPrime is changing that. MegPrime today announced the launch of its new rent payment rewards program, a platform that turns everyday rent payments into real financial value, rewarding renters for money they already spend while giving apartment communities a more effective way to attract and retain tenants. W...
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Semrush Announces Partnership With Lovable, Bringing Search Intelligence Into the Building Experience

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Semrush, an Adobe company and the leading brand visibility platform, today announces an industry-first partnership with Lovable, the AI software creation platform, integrating its expansive proprietary dataset directly into the Lovable building experience. Until recently, building software was only accessible to those with the technical skills and resources to attempt it. Now what's emerged is a new generation of founders who think in outcomes, move fast, and are buildi...
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Chegg Expands Into AI Model Training – Leveraging a Decade of Learning Expertise, Subject Matter Experts, and Proprietary Data

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG), a global learning company, today announced the next phase of its strategic roadmap, applying its proprietary data, operational expertise, and calibrated network of subject matter experts to help organizations train and evaluate world-class AI models. As AI systems increasingly rely on reinforcement learning from human feedback and rigorous evaluation, the demand for accurate, domain-specific expertise – particularly in STEM fields – has...
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Intentsify Expands Executive Team With Appointments of Chief Information Security Officer and General Counsel

WESTWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intentsify, a global provider of B2B intent data and signal-based go-to-market solutions, today announced the appointments of Joe Procaccini as Chief Information Security Officer and Robyn Tas as General Counsel and Data Privacy Officer. The additions deepen Intentsify's leadership bench across security, compliance, and legal strategy — critical foundations as the company expands its data solutions, enters new markets, and takes on increasingly complex enterpri...
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Arrow Electronics Announces New $1 Billion Share Repurchase Program

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) has authorized a new share repurchase program of up to $1 billion of the company’s outstanding common stock. Effective May 12, 2026, this program replaces the company’s existing share repurchase program. This authorization will permit the company to repurchase shares of its common stock as market and business conditions warrant through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, or oth...